THE LIVESTOCK REVOLUTION | Dietary Transition: The Global Rise in Consumption of Animal Food Products

Vladimír Pożtrk

ISBN 10: 3838374509 / ISBN 13: 9783838374505

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

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THE LIVESTOCK REVOLUTION | Dietary Transition: The Global Rise in Consumption of Animal Food Products | Vladimír Pożtrk | Taschenbuch | 80 S. | Englisch | 2011 | LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing | EAN 9783838374505 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE LIVESTOCK REVOLUTION | Dietary Transition: The Global Rise in Consumption of Animal Food Products
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3838374509
• ISBN 13: 9783838374505
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 6D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 6 millimeters depth
• Weight: 137 grams
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Synopsis

Globalization and urbanization are spreading worldwide. Big companies and western cultures influence the lifestyles in the developing countries, including diets, leading to dietary transition. Traditional diets are being replaced by new ones based on the increased consumption of tobacco, alcohol, sugar, salt, fat, animal food products, refined carbohydrates, and processed food. In this way the young urban society becomes addicted to cheaper and easily affordable food with permanent consequences on their health in form of noncommunicable (chronic) diseases. All of them could be largely prevented. Natural laws have important place in our lives and they can not be denied. Knowledge of these could further prevent problems with food shortages, depletion of scarce natural resources, prevent pollution of the environment, and relief global warming and population growth impacts. Developing countries are steadily increasing their consumption of animal food products. This reality basically means there will be less food available for less people on the global scale. These are the tough natural laws I wrote about. Besides that it makes our lives much more expensive and unsustainable.

About the Author

I was born and live in Slovakia, a small Central European country with a beautiful rural nature. I have always inclined to the sustainable lifestyle my grandparents lived. Recently I have realised human beings were not "designed" to eat and live the way they eat and live today. An awakening of this will help to heal the present world's wounds.